Everything old seemed to be new again at Japan's latest CEATEC tech show.
After a pandemic hiatus, the nation's premier gadgets and technology showcase was back. The most popular booth looked like it had been teleported from the early 1990s - legions of high school students were queuing for time on a virtual reality headset that gave the illusion of climbing neon-colored walls in a fantasy space. The branding is now the metaverse, which is the main difference this time around.
Japan could gain an edge in the burgeoning field of immersive online worlds, given the popularity of anime characters and virtual idols in the nation: Witness the boom in fictional, avatar-style YouTube celebrities such as Hatsune Miku or Kizuna AI, each with hundreds of thousands of followers. Metaverse promoters feel that this affinity for digital representations is a good thing for the future.
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